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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



from 35 to 40 acres per day. He had a small separator 

 of his own. and did his own threshing, and with his 

 Hart-Parr tractor hauled his entire crop to the elevator, 

 :i distance of .six miles, hauling as high as GOO bushels, 

 of wheat in one load. The success of this tractor was 

 FO great that Mr. Faulkner has carried on his two sec- 

 tion farm ever since with the aid of this outfit and the 

 remaining two horses. He says he makes more money 

 and has less worry than ever before in his life, and 

 that his ground is worked much more satisfactorily. 



Those who are similarly situated would do well to 

 correspond with the Hart-Parr company with a view to 

 getting additional information as to the possibilities 

 of work with this outfit. 



that several hundred farmers will be secured who want 

 lands in the dry belt of New Mexico, and the company 

 will assist them in placing the Wi^oins system in oper- 

 ation. The home&eeker will have several years in which 

 to "ay for the irrigation plant. Professor Wiggins, the 

 inventor, stated today that an effort would be made at 

 once to install several sub-irrigation stations in New 

 Mexico, and that during the coming year his new sys- 

 tem would be in general use in the fertile valleys and 

 rich mesa lands in the west. He said the Carey act 

 made it r>ossible for thousands of actual settlers to take 

 up homes in the southwest, and by his invention tiling 

 could be made and laid at nominal cost per acre. Here- 

 tofore it has cost from five to seven cents per foot to 



<>\vnc<l hy \Y. L. Faulkner, Bo/.eman. Mont. 



UNDERGROUND IRRIGATION TO RECLAIM ARID 

 LANDS. 



make tile, but by this new process it can be made at 

 from one to three cents per lineal foot. 



The National Land and Sub-Irrigation Company, 

 with $3,000,000 capital stock, has just been organized 

 under the laws of Arizona. It is proposed to install sev- 

 eral demonstration stations in New Mexico, Arizona 

 and Colorado, and in general develop the new system 

 of irrigation by means of ordinary drilled wells. The 

 promoters declare that from ten to twenty-five acres 

 can be successfully irrigated from a well that will sup- 

 Hy fifty to one hundred barrels in twenty-four hours. 

 They maintain that water in sufficient quantity can be 

 found almost anywhere in the arid and semi-arid belt 

 at from fifty to three hundred feet depths, and that 

 sub-irrigation will revolutionize the dam and ditch sys- 

 tem now in use. 



The new organization acquired the patents recently 

 issued to Prof. John L. Wiggins of Kansas City. His 

 new tile-making machine, which makes and lays a con- 

 tinuous cement tile, is said to be one of the greatest 

 inventions of the age, and will make from 30,000 to 

 40.000 feet of tile per day. It mixes the sand and ce- 

 ment, digs the ditch and moves itself along automatical- 

 ly. It is with this machine that the arid west will he 

 made to "bloom like the rose." 



Details could not be learned, but it is understood 



WENATCHEE, WASHINGTON. 



Ten thousand acres of land will be placed under irriga- 

 tion in the Wenatchee valley, west of Spokane, within the 

 next two years by the extension of the present canals. The 

 Wenatchee Canal Company has completed a power plant on 

 the Wenatchee river, generating 5,000 horse power, which 

 will be distributed along the present line of the canal to be 

 used for pumping on lands above the present level of the 

 canal. This will be supplemented with power from the En- 

 tiat Power Company and the Wenatchee Electric Company 

 to irrigate large tracts above the high level or a gravity 

 system. 



This scheme will be carried on by these companies work- 

 ing independently, and will mean the expenditure of $500,000 

 in putting in power plants and distributing systems. There 

 are now 35,000 acres of land in the Wenatchee valley in a 

 high state of cultivation, which but six years ago were prac- 

 tically arid owing to the lack of water. Since irrigation 

 started there 15,000 acres have been developed into one of 

 the greatest fruit districts in the world. The entire valley 

 is now a city of 10-acre tracts. 



The new canals will irrigate the higher benches along the 

 Wenatchee and Columbia rivers within a radius of 10 miles 

 of Wenatchee, making the city of Wenatchee the center of 

 25,000 acres of orchard which, it is estimated by experts, 

 will produce 25,000 carloads or approximately $17,500,000 

 annually. 



Walter M. Olive of Spokane, who is working with W. T. 



